Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (May 28, 1883 – February 26, 1966) was an Indian freedom fighter, pro-independence activist, politician as well as a poet, writer and playwright. He advocated dismantling the ...

The most notable aspect of the Supreme Court ruling prohibiting caste-based discrimination in the treatment of prisoners is that it required a judgment from the highest court to end colonial ...

A 14-year-old Dalit girl from Bulandshahr was repeatedly gang-raped by two upper caste men, who bribed her with money and threatened her. The crime surfaced on Oct 5, leading to the arrest of the ...

The Telangana government has initiated the process of a comprehensive household caste survey in the state aimed at targeted and equitable resource distribution among all communities. With this ...

BJP's dominance in SC-reserved seats in Jammu and Haryana signals erosion of Congress's influence and casts doubt on allegations against Modi government's stance on caste quotas. BJP benefitted ...

The MacArthur Foundation’s award - which includes a $800,000 [£615,000] stipend given over five years - isn’t just recognition for her research on caste, gender, and sexuality but a powerful ...

New Delhi: Amid the voices being raised in the favour of conducting a nationwide caste census from the Congress, party leader Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said that the caste system has been in our ...

India's prisons should not discriminate based on caste, including assigning "impure" work to inmates from disadvantaged communities, the Supreme Court has said. The Supreme Court in India ordered ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday declared that caste-based discrimination of prisoners, segregation of their work according to caste hierarchy, and the treatment of inmates from the de-notified ...

Republican vice presidential nomineeSenator J.D. Vance of Ohio walks out with his wife, Usha Vance, to speak at a rally with Republican nominee Donald Trump at Herb Brooks National Hockey Center ...

The court issued a series of directives to the Centre and states to ensure that no inmate is subjected to work assignments or housing arrangements based on their caste, and ordered that the caste ...